We have to get to the bottom of whoever is funding the media that keeps making Europeans think they don't need air conditioning There's not a single article in the European news that is pro-AC

“if this bomb i strapped to my chest will kill me, why is everyone else in such a panic?”

There're games with better graphics, others with better gameplay mechanics and many others with superior stories. However, none has found such a perfect balance like this digital marvel. The feeling you get when playing still remains unmatched.

Wasn't this obvious since the very beginning? You manufacture vehicles that have up 70% of parts made outside of the US. Tariffs just made american cars more expensive and less competitive.

We've got like 50 years before we can escape the permanent underclass.

Is it me or ebay shipping fees (both international and domestic) have skyrocketed like there's no tomorrow?

Brazilian State authorities unsuccessfully tried to ban Jackson filming "They Don't Care About Us" in Rio de Janeiro. Officials in the state of Rio feared images of poverty might affect tourism and accused Jackson of exploiting the poor. A judge banned all filming but this

TIL of the phenomenon known as "Twin Films," in which two movie studios simultaneously release the same type of movie. Armageddon / Deep Impact Babe / Gordy The Prestige / The Illusionist Volcano / Dante's Peak Antz / A Bug's Life Turner & Hooch / K-9 Capote / Infamous Abyss /

Air conditioning electricity use, US vs. select European countries. Europe had by one estimate 62,000 excess heat deaths in 2022, compared to around 1,700 in the US. Why does Europe refuse to produce more energy and thus allow its citizens to install AC at their homes?

This is how billionaires get to climate summits to tell us that eating meat will kill the planet.

Bounty programs to get rid of invasive species United States // India

Why would you need the same amount of railways after roads and airplanes appeared? Besides, this same "downgrade" ocurred in all western countries, including the United States.

Isn't this a chinese government common practice?

If this decision stands and all of Trump’s tariffs are found to be illegal (which they are) then every dollar they collected will have to be refunded. That’s about $300B.

US tariff rates continue to spike to new modern highs amid the trade war—in official data released today, tariffs rose to $28B on $288B in total imports, pushing average effective tariff rates to the highest level in decades at 9.7%

Tariffs will pay the deficit, right? right?

We need McCarthyism back.

We really cannot fathom how deranged things got just a couple years ago.

Germany is a strange country, average salary there is about twice as high as in Spain and Italy, yet Germans get lower pensions than people in Spain and Italy. Germany has obviously other spending priorities than treating people, who worked hard for 45 years, fairly. Why?

1. Vote socialism 2. Run away from the consequences of your vote 3. Keep spreading socialism somewhere else 4. Repeat